The idea is basically to store trains of thought. The premise is that every-thing is an association. The word is the thing. All words are explained by associations to other words. The relation between the associations is an association as well.
That gives us: thing association relation
thing, association, relation is the same thing which I call an association, because no thing can stand alone; it only makes sense in relation to something else.
So what we need is 2 things: Self/other, full/empty, key/value. But for convenience, lets throw in a ‘relation’, which is just another ‘value’ which is just another ‘key’, which is just another ‘value’.
To initiate a look up, you need a key - so the first value is called ‘key’. Association and Relation are just values (and keys), so I call them value1 and value2. Hence the key-value-value store description.
These 3 go together. I call this a ‘tie’ - tie associates and binds things together elegantly.
I have later learned that it seems very much like a triple store and a graph database though.
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